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This paper proposes an adaptive tracking control with prescribed performance function for distributive cooperative control of highly nonlinear multi-agent systems. The use of such approach confines the tracking error within a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Hashim A. Hashim , Sami El-Ferik , Frank L. Lewis

Control systems operating in the real world face countless sources of unpredictable uncertainties. These random disturbances can render deterministic guarantees inapplicable and cause catastrophic safety failures. To overcome this, this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Pol Mestres , Blake Werner , Ryan K. Cosner , Aaron D. Ames

Control barrier functions (CBFs) are a powerful tool for the constrained control of nonlinear systems; however, the majority of results in the literature focus on systems subject to a single CBF constraint, making it challenging to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Max H. Cohen , Eugene Lavretsky , Aaron D. Ames

This paper presents the analysis of the stability properties of PID controllers for dynamical systems with multiple state delays, focusing on the mathematical characterization of the potential sensitivity of stability with respect to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Pieter Appeltans , Silviu-Iulian Niculescu , Wim Michiels

This work proposes a control law for a manipulator with the aim of realizing desired time-varying motion-force profiles in the presence of a stiff environment. In many cases, the interaction with the environment affects only one degree of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-03 D. J. F. Heck , A. Saccon , N. van de Wouw , H. Nijmeijer

Multi-robot formation control has various applications in domains such as vehicle troops, platoons, payload transportation, and surveillance. Maintaining formation in a vehicle platoon requires designing a suitable control scheme that can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Rishabh Dev Yadav

This paper solves the problem of regulating the rotor speed tracking error for wind turbines in the full-load region by an effective robust-adaptive control strategy. The developed controller compensates for the uncertainty in the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Sina Ameli , Olugbenga Moses Anubi

This paper deals with the finite-time stabilization of a class of nonlinear infinite-dimensional systems. First, we consider a bounded matched perturbation in its linear form. It is shown that by using a set-valued function, both the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Kamal Fenza , Moussa Labbadi , Mohamed Ouzahra

Late-lumping feedback design for infinite-dimensional linear systems with unbounded input operators is considered. The proposed scheme is suitable for the approximation of backstepping and flatness-based designs and relies on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Marcus Riesmeier , Frank Woittennek

Predictive safety filters provide a way of projecting potentially unsafe inputs, proposed, e.g. by a human or learning-based controller, onto the set of inputs that guarantee recursive state and input constraint satisfaction by leveraging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Alexandre Didier , Andrea Zanelli , Kim P. Wabersich , Melanie N. Zeilinger

We propose a stochastic MPC scheme using an optimization over the initial state for the predicted trajectory. Considering linear discrete-time systems under unbounded additive stochastic disturbances subject to chance constraints, we use…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Henning Schlüter , Frank Allgöwer

Boundary feedback control design is studied for 1D hyperbolic systems with an in-domain disturbance and a boundary feedback controller under the effect of actuator saturation. Nonlinear semigroup theory is used to prove well-posedness of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Suha Shreim , Francesco Ferrante , Christophe Prieur

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSMs) are widely employed in high-performance drive systems owing to their high efficiency and power density. However, nonlinear dynamics, parameter uncertainties, and load disturbances complicate their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Mubarak Badamasi Aremu , Abdullah Ajasa , Ali Nasir

Control barrier function (CBF)-based safety filters provide a systematic way to enforce state constraints, but they can significantly alter the closed-loop dynamics induced by a nominal, stabilizing controller. In particular, the resulting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Yiting Chen , Pol Mestres , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Jorge Cortés

We demonstrate that time-delayed feedback control can be improved by adaptively tuning the feedback gain. This adaptive controller is applied to the stabilization of an unstable fixed point and an unstable periodic orbit embedded in a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-08-10 Judith Lehnert , Philipp Hövel , Valentin Flunkert , Peter Yu. Guzenko , Alexander L. Fradkov , Eckehard Schöll

This paper proposes an adaptive tube framework for model predictive control (MPC) of discrete-time linear time-invariant systems subject to parametric uncertainty and additive disturbances. In contrast to conventional tube-based MPC schemes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Anchita Dey , Shubhendu Bhasin

We develop a new framework for trajectory planning on predefined paths, for general N-link manipulators. Different from previous approaches generating open-loop minimum time controllers or pre-tuned motion profiles by time-scaling, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Ryan McGovern , Nikolaos Athanasopolous , Seán McLoone

In this paper, adaptive neural control (ANC) is investigated for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear stochastic systems with unknown parameters, unknown nonlinear functions and stochastic disturbances. The new controller of adaptive neural…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Chao-Yang Chena , Wei-Hua Gui , Zhi-Hong Guan , Ru-Liang Wang , Shao-Wu Zhou

This work provides formal safety guarantees for control systems with disturbance. A disturbance observer-based robust safety-critical controller is proposed, that estimates the effect of the disturbance on safety and utilizes this estimate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-05 Anil Alan , Tamas G. Molnar , Ersin Das , Aaron D. Ames , Gabor Orosz

A Pontryagin-based approach to solve a class of constrained Nonlinear Model Predictive Control problems is proposed which employs the method of barrier functions for dealing with the state constraints. Unlike the existing works in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Michele Pagone , Mattia Boggio , Carlo Novara , Anton Proskurnikov , Giuseppe C. Calafiore